What Constitutes Email Abuse?
Email Abuse is an abuse of mail facilities and not necessarily abuse on the Internet. To qualify as Email Abuse, an act must be unwelcome as well as interfere with an individual or group of individuals in some specific way. Abuse also includes activities that are illegal or dishonest. Under the terms of this AUP, Email Abuse includes, but is not limited to, the following: • Chain Letters and Ponzi Pyramid-Selling Schemes. Such messages work (or rather, don’t work) in much the same way as their paper-based cousins. The most common example of this in email is ‘Make Money Fast’ – gifting programs or reports purchasing programs that try to convince the reader that they will become fabulously wealthy by sending other people money. In addition to being a waste of resources, such messages are illegal in certain countries. Protecting people from these sorts of email is the primary reason Despammed exists in the first place. • Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE). Unsolicited Commercial Email is
